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Being ex-mil; being professional IT; being a Flag & Apple pie type..... this movie caused me to reflect on a lot of things...

Forget the production values, acting etc etc....

I was prepared to hate the person Snowden, his actions and cheer the shredding by the Feds... and then I realized I was checking what was being said during the movie on my iPad and my migraine started...

The USA is a democratic republic - every citizen is protected by vested freedoms listed in the constitution of our laws... and this person was exposing the violation of our laws by people and organizations to which we entrust their very safeguard...

I'm still investigating, thinking and taking tylenol.... So far all I can say is Thank You Mr. Snowden for your courage and conviction.

If Snowden proved anything, is that absolute power corrupts absolutely. A lot of people can't see the forest through the trees, and these sheeple are often quick to dismiss those of us who know the truth... That You and I are living in an Orwellian dream world that can implode upon us at any time, a world where REX 84, Agenda 21 protocols, and Neo-Malthusian cults are very much a real threat to every human being on this Earth, for all it takes for this evil to prevail, is for good and honorable men to do nothing.

I admire Snowden for what he did. What he did took courage and sacrifice, to selflessly throw oneself upon a grenade to expose a weapon of tyranny that was being turned upon the American People and the world, should be lauded with medals and accolades, not persecution and banishment. Snowden, in my opinion, is the living embodiment of what a true American patriot is, for it is The People who steer the course of the nation, not it's government, and it was high time the government came to understand that fact!...

For Thomas Jefferson said it best... "Dissent is the greatest form of patriotism"... Edward Snowden is the living embodiment of that statement.

Great film that clearly demonstrates that political parties are little more than window dressing. It's unfortunate for Snowden that he risked so much to inform the most apathetic population on earth. The constitution and the bible are the same in that so many claim to cherish them, but nobody bothers to read or understand them.

Theater review. No one expects Oliver Stone to make a movie that’s not controversial. Both in terms of subject matter and his approach. And so it is here. Here he takes on one of the most divisive (aside from politicians) Americans in recent memory. Everyone knows about Edward Snowden, a government employee with top secret access who stole computer files from a facility in Hawaii.

The film opens with Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) meeting journalists Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto), Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson) and documentarian Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) in Hong Kong. It is there he begins to tell his story and what he has taken and why. For an excellent award-winning documentary on this phase of Snowden’s mission, check out Poitras’s “Citizenfour.” We see Snowden in flashback as a small, but game Army recruit trying to make it as a Ranger. His weak leg bones wouldn’t hold up and he was eventually discharged. He then signed up to work for the CIA and worked in Europe, not only as an analyst but briefly as a field agent. That wasn’t for him.

A significant portion of the film involves his relationship with Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley). Frankly I was surprised to see that Stone, who also wrote the screenplay with Kieran Fitzgerald, spent so much time on this romance. I suspect to add some flavor as well as the human aspect to what otherwise could be a cold and calculating story. In truth, it is the cold and calculating portion of the film that is the most interesting.

As Snowden rises in the ranks and get access to more and more information, he discovers that the U. S. government is spying more on its own citizens than those of its enemies. This is all terribly interesting, very scary and evidently true. The film is flush with wonderful actors. Rhys Ifans plays Corbin O’Brian, Snowden’s mentor along with Nicolas Cage as Hank Forrester. Joely Richardson is Janine Gibson, editor of The Guardian and Timothy Olyphant is a CIA operative in Geneva and Snowden’s boss at the time. The film runs long at 134 minutes. Whatever your position is on Snowden, traitor or hero or something in between, the film is entertaining and leaves no doubt as to what Stone’s position is.